Volume 1 Building the City Chapter 59 The Strange Stone Pit
In the early morning of the second day, everyone went to work after breakfast.
The brick embryos are now enough to be used to build lime kilns for burning lime. However, because the construction of the horse has not yet been completed, the burned lime can only be delayed first.
The raw materials for burning lime can be collected first, and Wang Tian decided to boil the salt at night in the future, and during the day, he will take out the manpower to start collecting limestone and seize the time to tie up the horse.
Wang Tian began to be a little anxious, autumn is the season when all kinds of plants are ripe, it is a good time to identify all kinds of crops that can be used to grow crops, he urgently needs to complete the construction of the wall, so that he can prepare for a long journey.
It will be better identified when the plant and fruit coexist. When it came to spring, it was all green, and Wang Tian was not confident that he could identify it.
Once he delayed the time, he would have to wait another year, and he couldn't afford to wait.
Wang Tian asked the second brother where there was more limestone, and the second brother Jingang didn't speak, just pointed to the distance and smiled.
Wang Tian waved his hand vigorously in the direction pointed by the second brother, "Let's go, target the quarry." ”
Then he turned over and got on his horse, and Xiao Fuma hissed a little excitedly. In the past few days, apart from going to work as a coolie twice, it hasn't gone out shopping.
Wang Tian is not even as good as Xiao Fuma, after he crossed over. He had never left the tribe within a five-mile radius.
This is the first time he has ridden a small Fu horse after he crossed over, and both one person and one horse were a little excited, patted the horse's back gently, and ran forward like an arrow with the reins in his hand.
Wu hurriedly urged everyone to follow and instructed the second brother to protect the Son of Heaven. And loudly beckoned Wang Tian to slow him down.
The second brother also hurriedly answered and chased him out with an axe.
Wang Tian also slowed down after running out of the place where he shot. Whether his own life is important or for everyone's sake, he can't be so willful.
Along the way, the second brother asked the second brother which direction they usually took when hunting, and the second brother pointed in the direction of due north.
However, their trip was to the southeast, and the direction was wrong, so that Wang Tian's desire to see the main hunting area of the people could only be frustrated.
The north is a jungle area, the terrain is steep and gentle, the vegetation is mostly evergreen coniferous forest, from a distance, a dark blue color is revealed to a cloud of crimson, there should be a maple forest.
To the west, the river in front of the tribe was facing the river, and the green hills on both sides carried the silky river to the southeast.
Directly south seems to be a depression formed by the impact, and the terrain is flat, stretching for about five or six kilometers.
The southeast of the area that we will go to this time is the connecting area that connects the jungle to this tidal flat. The further you go, the more gentle the terrain becomes.
After a while, the second brother pointed out that the place had arrived, and Wang Tian looked around, but he didn't see a mountain wall.
"What's the situation, are the stones all in the ground? So how do you get it? Wang Tian muttered.
I can't help but feel cold, if you need to dig down to take the stone, I don't know how much more work it will be.
The second brother seemed to see the confusion on Wang Tian's face, and came over and pulled him to take a few steps and pointed down with his hand.
Wang Tian looked down, only to find that there was a big pit on the ground, the depth was two or three stories high, three sides were steep, only on the side of the river, a sloping path could enter.
A natural geological fault has been formed on the rock wall two or three stories high, and the layers are very distinct.
Looking at this terrain, Wang Tian was overjoyed, isn't this a natural stone burning field? Even the kiln can be saved, and the quarried stones are piled up at the bottom of the pit, and the firewood can be burned.
Looking at the layers of faults, I got excited and hurried to the entrance.
He hoped to find traces of copper or iron ore in these faults, but when he descended to the mouth of the cave, he was disappointed.
Common here are some shale, which is a common material used in tribes to make stone knives.
The stone is medium hard, has a sharp edge and is easy to sharpen.
Quartz ore, sandstone, granite, and basalt are all available, but you can't see reddish-brown iron ore, gray-white color, and there will be no copper ore at a glance.
There really is no such good thing in the world. It gives you a salt mine and a mountain of gold.
As expected, Wang Tiandao was not much disappointed.
There is indeed a lot of limestone here, and the place where Wang Tian stood just now is that the limestone is located on the top surface, and below is the marble layer, shale and granite.
Some of the rock formations at the bottom have been hollowed out, the traces of artificiality are obvious, and there are large and small limestones scattered everywhere on the ground.
If you are annoyed in the future, you will have to re-excavate and look at those artificial traces, and only the Tianlong tribe should not be able to cause such obvious traces.
Could it be that people from other tribes are also taking stones here? It's not that far from the tribe, and it's a destabilizing factor.
For other tribes, it is difficult to understand that they should run near their own tribe to get stones.
Isn't there a suitable stone around those tribes to work with? Isn't this supposed to be all over the floor?
Wang Tian interrogated the second brother about this, and he was also confused. As the second eldest of the tribe, this guy only knows how to do things, and doesn't worry about anything else.
He only knew that around the Tianlong Tribe, there were three tribes that were not much smaller than him.
They are the Tree Tribe in the north, the Water Tribe in the east, and the Sheep Tribe in the west. As for the south on the other side of the river, it is not known because I have never been there.
It seems that the only way to go back is to ask Wu He and the leader, and the problem is not solved for the time being, and Wang Tian does not think about it and begins to take stones.
It is just over 100 meters away from the river, and the large stones are completely ready to be transported by land and water, and the small pieces are directly burned here to lime and then brought back to the tribe.
Although it is a natural kiln pit, large stones cannot be turned into lime after a day of burning, so they can only be returned to the tribe for processing for safety.
The 20 men were divided into two groups, and the strong men put large stones in baskets on their backs and piled them up by the river.
The women picked up small pieces of stones, and according to Wang Tian's request, piled up a gear shape with an outer circle close to the cliff wall on three sides.
The diameter is about 10 meters, and the height of the stone stack is controlled to be less than two meters.
With the efforts of everyone, two hours later. The large pieces of stone were all transported to the river.
He also asked the second brother to take everyone to fill the gaps in the gear-shaped stone pile, and asked everyone to suspend the stone stacking.
Then he came to the top of the stone pit, took the reins of the little Fu horse from the hands of the guard, turned on his horse, and hurried all the way to the tribe.
He is not afraid of any danger on this road, and with the speed of Xiao Huma, there is no problem in getting rid of it.
Wu saw Wang Tian come back from a horse alone, and his face showed a look of horror. He thought something was wrong.
Wang Tian told him not to worry, he was coming back to get firearms. After Wu handed him the firearm, he got on his horse again and rushed to the factory.
After tethering the little Fu horse, they found Slender Toutuo, and each of them drove a bamboo raft to the quarry point downstream, and each bamboo raft had five bamboo wormwood on it.
Wang Tian was planning to put the stone on the bamboo raft and use the bamboo artemisia to prop it up.
This section of water flows very slowly, and even if it is upstream, it is much less laborious than carrying such heavy stones by land.